On 11 July, 16:26, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:
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So how many people have actually been killed by a 'heater' (presumably
electric) being dropped in the bath?

According to the movies and cheesy whodunnits, lots. In reality, I've no
recall of it actually happening,

Circa late 1970s/ early 1980s, the late Lady Barnet of What's My Line?
TV program fame killed herself by arranging for a wall elec heater to
drop into her bath.

She lived in a very pleasant late Victorian house with its own grounds
in Cossington, Leicestershire, opposite the vets. I know because my
cat escaped into her garden from the vets!!

Her suicide occurred after a widely reported case when she was accused
of shoplifting.

but the newspapers love to perpetuate
old myths.

no myth